Tuesday, August 18, 2015

AD&D 2nd Edition Player's Handbook now at DriveThruRPG

It looks like will be getting all the reprints in PDF format afteral.

The AD&D 2nd Edition Revised Player's Handbook just went up.


The Monster Manual and DMG should follow in the next couple of weeks.

RPG a Day 2015, Day 18

Day 18: Favorite SF RPG

This one is harder since I have yet to find that perfect Scifi RPG. Traveller came close, but in the end it has to be Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space and it's spiritual forefather FASA's Doctor Who RPG.








Monday, August 17, 2015

League of Extraordinary Ladies: Raven

It's draft clean up week!  I have a bunch of drafts and half started posts.  So time to get them out of my queue.

I have posted some of these pics last month, but I have a few left over.
If you can, please stop by Michael Dooney's Deviant Art page for more.
http://michaeldooney.deviantart.com/gallery/33431300

Perfect for Mysteries of the Hollow Earth or Leagues of Adventure.

Raven

The young woman known as Raven is bit of mystery to other members of the League.  Lady Zatanna does not trust her.  Her command of magic is not as great as Zatanna's, but what she does know she commands with brutal efficiency.

Raven guards her secrets well.  While she does wish to aid in the fight against evil she has more at stake than the others.  For she is the daughter of the Devil himself.

Health 9
Style 5

Primary Attributes
Body 3
Dexterity 4
Strength 2
Charisma 4
Intelligence 4
Willpower 6

Secondary Attributes
Size 0
Move 7
Perception 10
Initiative 8
Defense 7
Stun 4

Skills (levels only)
Academics, Religion 3
Animal Handling 2
Archery 1
Athletics 2
Con 2
Drive 2
Firearms 1
Investigation 5
Larceny 2
Linguistics 6 (English, Italian, Latin, Greek, Egyptian, Enochian)
Medicine 2
Melee 2
Performance 6
Ride 2
Stealth 4
Streetwise 4
Sorcery (half-demon) 9 

Talents
Attractive
Danger Sense
Headstrong
Magical Aptitude (half-demon)
Psychic Ability (ESP, precognition, TK/Umbrakinesis)
Well Connected

Resources
Ally 3 (Teen titans)
Contacts (the Justice League) 2
Contacts (Supernatural) 3

Flaws
Mental (emotionally flat)
Obsession (protect the world from her father)
Weirdness Magnet

RPG a Day 2015, Day 17

Day 17: Favorite Fantasy RPG

No question.  Dungeons and Dragons.


 








 









Hail to the King baby.


Sunday, August 16, 2015

RPG a Day 2015, Day 16

Day 16: Longest Game Session Played

Back in college I went over to my High School DM's house.  He had come down to college where I was because I had talked the place up so much.

We co ran a Ravenloft game, "Dreams of Ravenloft" where basically one of us ran I6 and the other I10.  Anytime the characters fell asleep they would wake up in the other reality.  Not know which one was real or not.

I went over on a Friday afternoon and we played straight to Sunday night.  This was back before cell phones so my roommates had no idea where I was.  So it was only about 56 hours, but it was 56 continuous hours, minus some time for naps.

Can't do that anymore.



Saturday, August 15, 2015

Zatannurday: Constantine is Back!

Sort of.

Here is Constantine star actor Matt Ryan explaining.





Constantine is coming to the CW's Arrow, which for season 4 I have heard will be called "Green Arrow".

Here is another link, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/matt-ryan-constantine-arrow-814661

I am mostly avoiding spoilers, but this looks like it will be awesome and it is something that Stephen Amell, Oliver Queen himself, has wanted for a while now.   Adding John to the mix, even for one episode, changes or rather broadens Arrow's world.  We got super-science in season 2 and some magic in season 3.  Looks like season 4 might embrace the wakiness that is the DC Universe's magical realms.

Of course I have to ask...When will Zatanna be on?



RPG a Day 2015, Day 15

Day 15: Longest Campaign Played

I would have to say my Dragonslayers game which began with my oldest son around 2005 or so.  This year it will 10 years in.  Even my current Order of the Platinum Dragon game is a continuation of it.

Though technically it is a continuation of my Mystoerth game I began in 1980.

But let's just call it 10 years.